Production Shaped
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Paying for a machine that guesses
I pay for several AI models every month. Some days they save me an hour; on others I spend that hour proving them wrong.
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The half-a-job problem — setting completion goals on hobby projects
AI made it easier to start hobby projects, which made the old half-finished-project problem louder rather than smaller.
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The label that should have stayed in the shop
A complete build record for turning a surplus Solum retail label into a Home Assistant-backed Codex status display: EFR32 recovery, Pico 2 flashing, S3+C6 radio architecture, no-solder decisions, wiring failures and the path to a homelab enclosure.
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Home Assistant (Mind Over Matter)
A few days with Matter, Thread, IKEA devices, Home Assistant, and the gap between standardised onboarding and reality.
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Busy and productive finally look identical
Fifteen production releases in 2 days, and the uncomfortable question of whether AI made me better or just better at slicing the work small.
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Tools I stole from work — New Relic
Second in the Tools I Stole From Work series: putting work-grade observability under a home network, and trimming the free tier when it hit 100GB.
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Moving my skills and memory between agent tools
Moving a skill library and a file-based memory store between agent tools without copying either, by pointing both at one source of truth.